His American dream didn’t make it

Thanks to Brad Ansley (“What we can do to preserve the American dream,” Nov. 14). I want to thank him for reconfirming my belief that this current recession we are still in is not a shared-pain recession.

I felt this was the case from the beginning, but his perspective on our situation has only confirmed my assumption.

First, he’ll have to know that I am what he will conceive of as a taker of “free stuff.” I was formerly one of the “makers of stuff” he so clearly prefers, but I was tossed into the “dark side” at the beginning of this downturn when my career was offshored.

I wish him good luck in surviving all of the Obama taxing he is so worried about. I wish I had to worry about how much tax I was going to have to pay. At $11 an hour, part-time, I probably won’t have to pay very much, but then again, I’m not looking at much of a retirement, either. Good luck to Brad. I hope his American dream survives better than mine did.

P.S.: When one puts one’s head in the sand, there is only one part left exposed to do the “talking.”